Name – जलवॆतसः

Botanical name – Salix tetrasperma

Description – Medium-sized trees with silky-pubescent branches. Leaves acute or acuminate, serrate along margin. Flowers unisexual, sessile in male, pedicelled or sessile in female, on long catkins. Capsule 2-valved, with persistent bracts.

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Use – Dried leaves mixed with sugar given in rheumatism, epilepsy, venereal diseases, stone in the bladder, piles and swellings. Bark used as a febrifuge.